Church of St Dunstan
CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345010
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345010
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, CHURCH WALK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Baltonsborough
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54162 34786
Details
ST53SW BALTONSBOROUGH CP CHURCH WALK (Nest side)
9/5 Church of St Dunstan
22.11.66
6V I
Anglican Parish Church. All C15, C19 restoration. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, some stucco to tower, stone tile roofs, coped verges with cruciform finials. Nave, chancel, south porch. West tower, C19 vestry and organ loft; Perpendicular. Three stage tower, diagonal buttresses on bottom 2 stages, 2-light bell-chamber windows, embattled ashlar parapet, square lead-covered spirelet; large weather-vane; 3-light west window, west door. Buttressed 4 bay nave, 2-light windows, pointed heads. Two bay chancel, again with buttresses, 2-light windows, pointed heads; priests door on the south, 4-light east window. South porch with an ashlar frontage, early C19 wrought-iron dog-gates with a lamp over; C15 inner door with surface tracery. Plastered interior with ceiled wagon roofs to nave and chancel, each with ribs and bosses; to nave enriched adjacent to the chancel arch; that to chancel with an elaborate wall plate with carved paterae, 5 carved wooden angled to each of the north and south sides. Bell-ringers loft under tower, rail with turned balusters. Elaborately moulded and similar the chancel and tower arches. Piscina to chancel with a foiled head and the remains of sore painted decoration; futher piscina to nave; aumbry; sedilia with 2 carved panels, one with a central fleur-de-lis, one with an achievement and raised lettering: "Mors Novltra". Restored C15 pews, one with a hinged seat projecting into the aisle, C19 choir stalls. C15 octagonal font and pulpit, the latter with large foiled niches. C19 alas box on a medieval base. C19 rood screen and reredos. Royal aras. Chair dated 1667. Some C19 stained glass. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5414934791
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267477
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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